Process Improvement

QAD Shop Floor Control – Where is That Work Order?

Don Lindsey will cover several aspects of Work Orders and Shop Floor Control from WO creation to release, from component issue and Back Flush to Labor application and Work Order Analysis. He will briefly cover Repetitive Setup and Processing, as well as highlights of Kanban processing. Since in the future Operations within QAD WIP will […]

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Automatically Upload Your QAD Data with Auto Load

Is your company one of the many who needs to load data from another system into QAD? It isn’t always easy or affordable to do automatically—but it is time-consuming if you don’t make it an automatic process. At 32 Soft, we have a solution that will allow you to automatically load error-free data from another system […]

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Flexible Management of Customer Schedules

Flexible Customer Scheduling = Flawless Execution = Favorable Customers Customer scheduled orders can be challenging to manage and maintain, particularly when they are sent via EDI directly from your customer to your QAD system. Viewing and making changes to orders in the QAD system can be time-consuming. Customers can send both long- and short-term schedules […]

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QAD Access Security Plan Checklist

In a recent webinar, QAD Access: Concerns and Considerations, presenter Don Lindsey included a to-do list of tasks that should be considered before you embark on setting up your permissions and roles in QAD. You’ll find a downloadable pdf of this graphic here: Security Plan Checklist Don’s checklist includes: Review, Determine and Understand How Your Enterprise is Organized […]

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QAD Production Schedules Made Even Easier

Production Planner Plus Changes the Game for QAD Users!   You know how critical effective production planning and scheduling are to the productivity and efficiency of your business. Even as time-consuming as it can be, it is essential to keep the production line humming without the stops and starts poor planning can bring. Our Production […]

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32 Soft Loves #MWUG

One place all of us at 32 Soft love to visit is the Midwest User Group conferences in the Spring and Fall, which we’ve been attending for more than a decade! We like to talk to the attendees about what’s new in their business and in ours. We like learning more by attending presentations. And, […]

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Are you still printing checks from QAD?

There are benefits to using a B2B third-party payment processor. It can save you time and money and improve your cash flow. Plus, most payment processors offer multiple methods for processing payments, including EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer), credit or virtual cards, wire transfers, and ACH. Payment processors also offer web portals to make it easy […]

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Data Visualization & Your Production Schedule

Why We Added New Graphical Views to Our Production Planner Data Loaders   We’ve all done it. We’ve poured through our QAD production schedule details to make sure there are no glitches, no overlaps, no conflicts or resource shortages only to find we missed a critical element! Even when we download those details to a […]

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QAD Upgrade Means a Sleek New Portal

When our client, a manufacturing company, embarked on a QAD version upgrade, one of their biggest concerns was what to do with an extranet site that was being used by internal sales, external reps, distributors, and OEMs. The site was old and quite difficult to maintain, but the users relied on it so it had to stay. […]

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Inside the Lab: Two New Applications!

Replenishment Pick List & SO Entry Date Capacity Warning At 32 Soft, we’re developing and testing two new apps that just might be the very thing you need. Warehouse Pick Replenishment Call List identifies the pick location minimum requirements and presents a callout for replenishment of any location/item that falls below that minimum amount. Once you […]

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